Trial for two Chinese newspaper databases

March 5, 2015

Yale University Library has begun a trial of two Chinese newspaper databases: Central Daily News and Udndata.

Central Daily News 中央日報 (1928-2006) was the official newspaper of the Kuomintang (Guomindang) 國民黨. It was first published in Shanghai on February 1, 1928 and has been one of the oldest Chinese language newspapers in the world. The newspaper provides important sources for scholars to study not only those turbulent years in mainland China under the Nationalist government’s rule until 1949 but also politics, economy, military, culture, foreign relations and society of Taiwan after 1949.

Udndata 聯合知識庫-全文報紙資料庫 provides full-text search for about 12 million news articles published by the United Daily News Group headquartered in Taipei. The contents are updated daily. The 7 newspapers and their coverage of periods are: